AI Trainer (SWE)

Micro1; India; Remote; INR 7,768,000 - 15,537,000; Full time

Job summary

micro1 is seeking Software Engineers with prior AI-training or model-evaluation experience to craft realistic tasks that challenge advanced AI models. This remote contractor role involves 15+ hours per week with flexible scheduling to support an AI benchmarking project.

You will design tasks, set up reproducible environments, write reference solutions and tests, and evaluate model-generated code for correctness and robustness. Immediate start preferred.

Qualifications

• Prior paid experience training, evaluating, benchmarking, or improving AI systems.
• Strong practical proficiency with Python.
• Professional experience with at least one additional programming language such as Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, C++, C#, or Go.

Responsibilities

• Create realistic software engineering tasks that challenge advanced AI models.
• Develop task instructions, reproducible environments, reference solutions, tests, and evaluation criteria.
• Evaluate model-generated code and technical deliverables for correctness, robustness, and completeness.
• Identify issues involving implementation, debugging, dependencies, performance, testing, or reproducibility.

Skills

Python

Java

JavaScript

TypeScript

Rust

C++

C#

Go

AI training

Software design

Version control

Testing

Debugging

CI/CD

Linux

Docker

Tools

Linux

Docker

CI/CD

Git

Job description

Job Description

Job DescriptionPay: $60–$120/hour equivalent, paid per accepted taskLocation: Global, fully remoteJob Type: ContractorTime Commitment: 15+ hours per weekSchedule: Flexiblemicro1 is looking for Software Engineers with prior professional AI-training or model-evaluation experience to support a project focused on improving advanced AI systems.You will use your software engineering expertise to create challenging technical tasks, evaluate model-generated code, identify failures, and establish objective standards for correct solutions. This role is intended for candidates who have already completed substantive AI-training work.

What You’ll Work On

• Create realistic software engineering tasks that challenge advanced AI models.
• Develop task instructions, reproducible environments, reference solutions, tests, and evaluation criteria.
• Evaluate model-generated code and technical deliverables for correctness, robustness, and completeness.
• Identify issues involving implementation, debugging, dependencies, performance, testing, or reproducibility.

Required Qualifications

• Prior paid experience training, evaluating, benchmarking, or improving AI systems.
• Strong practical proficiency with Python.
• Professional experience with at least one additional programming language, such as Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, C++, C#, or Go.
• Strong knowledge of software design, debugging, testing, version control, and dependency management.

Public Proof of Skill

Strong applicants should provide evidence such as:

• Substantial GitHub or GitLab repositories
• Meaningful open-source contributions
• Maintainer or core-contributor responsibilities
• Codeforces, ICPC, Olympiad, or other programming-competition results
• Public developer tools, libraries, systems, or technical projects
• Technical publications, benchmarks, or engineering write-ups

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience creating AI-training tasks, reference solutions, tests, graders, or benchmark problems.
• Experience reviewing other AI trainers’ technical submissions.
• Codeforces rating of approximately 1900 or higher, or strong results in another programming competition.
• Experience with Linux, Docker, CI/CD, command-line tools, or sandboxed environments.
• Prior experience with long-horizon or agentic coding evaluations.

Availability to begin immediately.

Compensation

CompensationCompensation is output-based. Experts are paid for tasks that meet project specifications and quality requirements. Task availability and completion time may vary.